Wed Sep 02
♠ Sometimes we simply do not want to activate direnv in a given project. Deny it for the current directory: % direnv deny . To enable it later: % direnv allow . This is necessary to make it stop nagging you each time you cd into a project (directory) with .envrc: % cdtmp...
My post about Firefox generated a lively discussion on Hacker News, with many good points raised. The top comment (as of this writing) summed things up well: “It's exactly because Firefox is so important that you'll see people here complaining when Firefox does things to push away users . . .” Overall, the passion...
Throwback note. I am fully blind now, so I listen to a lot of audio described Let's Plays so I can still enjoy the stories Begin old piece. One of the first things that people notice when they flip on their consoles are the catchy intro sequences; the flashy animations of the screen. Videogames have a quantified...
I really thought I was going to have a load of time through August as the month started. Instead it turned out to be absolutely rammed at work, including a conference attendance and giving a guest lecture for a course run by the local Uni. As a result I was regularly exhausted in the evenings and weekends and so...
My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I took this photo in what I think was Cobble Hill on the afternoon of August 23, 2026. 1 | Dating App Adds Feature Allowing Men To Filter Out Women Who Support Lindsay...
Another day of some Dragonfly photography. I'm not sure if it's normal to see so many in the UK or I've just been in the right place at the right time this year. Today's captures were from Rendelsham Forest in Suffolk. Yes, the forest where the famous Rendelsham incident of 1980 occurred. The light was a bit more...
The phrenology of a "math person" Phrenology, 1834 Credit: WikiMedia The theme of this month's 32BitCafe Web Carnivale is Back To School. And I am here to teach you about mathematics. In any other blogpost, this would be the point where I make a sarcastic joke about how it is everyone's favourite subject, or I would...
Have you heard Trump's plan to import meat whose country of origin he won't admit and allow farmers to process their own meat? This is worrying (to put it lightly). I haven't been this immediately concerned about something public health related since probably 2020. It is very likely that buying meat could become...
My parents are great, but they are also of a different generation, and despite the amount of people around their age that I’ve met online that somehow align with many of my hobbies, everyone is different, and well, that’s the case for them. Something I admire about my mom is how she still learns, she studies a lot...
This is Dolores Jeanette Harrison, who was the smartest girl at Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Alabama. She probably would have been the smartest girl at your high school also, but being the daughter of a failing farmer in Blount County, Alabama isn’t a recipe for success, so I can’t point you to an online...
Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 20/09/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.
“Guten Morgen. Ich hätte gerne 120 Gramm von der italienischen Leichtigkeit. Ist das die luftgetrocknete? Und dann noch 80 Gramm von dem Exzessaufschnitt, aber die ohne Petersilie. Und noch mal 80 Gramm von der feinen Zu-Spät-Romantik.” “Sehr gern. Darfs a bisserl mehr sein?” “Natürlich. Vielen Dank.” Per E-Mail...
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’” “Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion,” the great painter Richard Diebenkorn counseled in his ten rules for beginning creative projects. “One doesn’t arrive — in words or in art — by...
El 26 de agosto de 2026, Estados Unidos designó como terroristas al colectivo italiano que da soporte e infraestructuras digitales (blogs, correo electrónico, etc) a colectivos de activistas desde 2001 El gobierno de EE.UU. una vez más sacándose de la manga una ley para acallar voces disidentes. Un estado terrorista...
2026-09-02Hello! I took a much-needed break outdoors and went to the beach.While on the trail to the beach, I came across this view into the prairie beyond the line of trees. I think prairie is the right word; it's not empty of trees or shrubs, but it is flat and coastal land. Unless this used to be a forest and the...
Think back to your childhood: What is your earliest music memory? Share that song and your story! Atarah’s Band is my earliest wholly music focussed memory. A flautist who took an orchestra on tour with a show aimed at kids. I can’t remember much more than a flamed hair woman, and being invited up to pick a...
I've recently switched to Gnome's default apps for email etc. So instead of #Thunderbird doing all the things, I have Geary, Calendar, and Contacts. Most of the time I only need email, so it's nice having a much simplified UX. I also like how integrated into Gnome they all are. Thanks for reading this post via RSS....
I caught a news report today and was reflecting on its implications for my work in higher education.
I just wrote a draft post that was filled with doom and gloom and so much negativity. I wrote all that out of my system, then hit the back button on the top left of my screen, and hit “discard changes”. Poof. All that doom thinking gone into the ether. Here’s why I don’t want to give into it. Why I don’t want to...
I've just released the first version of another library in the collection of libraries that support the development of Rogallo: specifically, another one that helps convert text in other formats into Gemtext so Rogallo's display can be a little richer. In effect, this is a sibling to md2gemtext and html2gemtext....
Well, it's high time I posted something, but I have little of consequence to impart. With the departure of the Canadian branch of the family, and the absence of the Lichfield branch on holiday in Spain, things have fallen strangely quiet, though the latter contingent return today. I spent last weekend over the...
September (YES !!!) 2026. Sheffield. Goodness knows what posts you’re going to get the next few days as I head into the internet wasteland that is Cranborne Chase, so this may be my last for a while. I expect you were hoping for something more exciting than a Mitchells & Butler family diner over the road from...
Fuck self-redemption. I can't do this shit alone. I hate this world, but I love the people in it enough to stick around. I guess that's why God lets us be so stupid—excuse me, lets me be so stupid—all the damn time. Out and about yesterday, I tried to take it all in; yeah, it was one of those days, man. I saw some...
The most popular link last time was the Luytens Crypt, with this piece about culling your book collection second. I can feel myself becoming ever more algorithm-phobic. This is how I want everything recommended to me, these days.I found this audio serialisation of Hiroshima, 8.15: The Lost Memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto...
I learned a few weeks ago that there's apparently a special pass which exempts you from the vehicle parking fees at 54 specific California State Parks. This pass is only for fourth graders. If you have a fourth grader, you can skip paying the day use fees - which are, like, six to ten dollars or so - at random parks...
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH Brennan Kenneth "You can't separate the art from the artist" can be an interesting discussion to have in the abstract. And then your favourite artist is a paedophile, and suddenly you have to decide whether you can still listen to their music. Or the author...
“Philosophical work would be better with adversaries collaborating to keep each other honest.” Why is that? What would it look like? In the following guest post, members of the Mind and Morality Lab at Boston University—Victor Kumar (Boston University), Derek Anderson (Boston University), Emilia Lacy (Boston...
Title: Correr es mi Destino Website: correresmidestino.com RSS Feed: correresmidestino.com/feed Twenty years of stories and photographs from Latin America, China, France and elsewhere—mostly about everyday life, cultural misunderstandings and the people I meet along the way. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you...
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? It seems not. The more people use AI agents, the more robotic their behaviour comes, says Victor Tangermann, writing for Futurism. Tangermann’s article brings to mind the trailer for The Social Reckoning, which I linked to a few days ago, and the robotic-like demeanour of Meta...
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I have talked to multiple people using Ring cameras and similar surveillance tech at or around their home over the last few years, usually from the US. The reasons are mostly the same: We live in an area with a high crime rate. We had a break-in before. We wanna have proof for insurance/police, or when the delivery...
Rolling pine cone to the birthplace of the goddess Ionian sea salt you bring and alpine cold of a northwestern wind hoping to understand how the surface can differ from the depth
Pela n vez eu estou tentando ter um bullet journal. Durante a pandemia foi a primeira vez que tentei a sério. Antes disso em 2018 quando eu descobri a existência desse método eu tentei por uma semana antes de desistir, então não considero nem uma tentativa. Em 2020 era interessante para seguir uma rotina e ajudava a...
Since a lot of my writing crosses over days, it’s always interesting to start something with no real idea where it goes. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my days become this blur. Like I could begin a thing now. Have some or no idea what it is I want to write and just see where things go. I never have tried...
Philosopher Eric Winsberg shares this gem. He contacted the real Professor Bernofsky at her university email address who confirmed this is a fraud (note, once again, the gmail address): From: Susan Bernofsky <bernofskysusan@gmail.com>Sent: 27 August 2026 07:50To: Eric Winsberg [omitted]Subject: A German-language...
If you use Cloudflare, you may be blocking RSS users. Came across this link on Mastodon today and I’m sharing it as a bit of a heads up: Source: openrss.org When enabling the tools, Cloudflare will evaluate each visit to your website and determine whether the visit is from an AI scraper or “bot” based on a score ,...
Large language models (LLMs) are great at answering questions, but they have an important limitation: they don’t inherently have access to what’s happening on the web right now. Ask an LLM about a programming concept and it can probably answer from its existing knowledge. Ask it about the latest JavaScript...
A recap of sortsFor the uninitiated, Blaugust is a blogging challenge, started by Belghast in 2014, where participants post 31 times during the month of August. A post for every day of the month. I took part this year and completed the challenge successfully. No slumps, no misses, no scrounging around for ideas—I...
I swim out to sea. I float in seafoam glass, the rolling waves the cradle of someone’s arms. They carry me to jagged waters, and the colour of it is a cumulonimbus sky. I plunge into its depths. I can’t see because my eyes are closed. My arms and feet are pushing at the water as if they alone could move the sea....
September 2, 2026 I'm religious about keeping my OSs updated. But yesterday I got a System Settings notification that iOS 26.6.1 was available. I was confused because I was pretty sure I'd already installed it. Curious, I went back to my Things 3 Logbook, and sure enough, I'd marked as completed the task to process...
I joined Twitter back in 2008. I didn't understand it's purpose, so I abandoned it until I discovered hashtags. A few years after I joined, I stumbled upon #edchat. I began using Twitter to communicate with educators from all over the world. I started a blog, made connections, and stepped into a community. It was...
A false guru led me somewhere other than deception.Kumaré (2011), directed by Vikram Gandhi.A few days ago, a close friend sent me a video.I do not think there was any particular intention behind it. He probably just found it interesting and thought I might enjoy it.In the video, a man with long hair and a beard was...
Conozco pocas canciones de Álex Anwandter, pero se de su trayectoria e importancia en la escena pop de la música chilena de este siglo. Por eso quise ir a su concierto del Movistar Arena la noche del sábado. La celebración de sus 20 años de carrera musical que resultó ser un conciertazo. Muy entreteFuente: Eterno...
Zack Rhodes is a cartoonist based in Sonoma County. Find him on Instagram @solditfor50